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Cisco Systems® is pleased to announce a permanent list price reduction of up to 21 percent, effective immediately, on the Cisco Catalyst 2970G-24TS, Cisco Catalyst 2970-24T, and Cisco Catalyst 2948G-GE-TX model switches. Gigabit Ethernet connectivity is even more affordable and intelligent services are easier to deploy for small and medium-sized businesses and enterprise branch offices.

The Cisco
® Catalyst
® 2970 Series and the Cisco Catalyst 2948G-GE-TX are affordable fixed-configuration Gigabit Ethernet switches that can enhance network performance and increase productivity for small and medium-sized businesses and enterprise branch offices. The Cisco Catalyst 2970 Series of Layer 2+ Gigabit Ethernet switches beats the competition by delivering wire-speed performance with a superior set of intelligent services for today's knowledge workers.

The following two configurations include the Cisco Catalyst 2970 Series:

Available with Cisco IOS
® Software Enhanced Image (EI), the Cisco Catalyst 2970 Series offers a complete set of intelligent multilayer services to deliver security, quality of service (QoS), and availability with the simplicity of traditional LAN switching. Features such as access control list (ACL) filtering and QoS classification bring security to the edge of the network and enable applications such as IP telephony and real-time streaming multimedia. The Cisco Catalyst 2970 Series supports Smartports macros, a set of verified feature templates per connection type, which greatly reduce the time and complexity of advanced feature deployments, and help customers to take advantage of Cisco best-practices and achieve implementation consistency across multiple switch devices.